Fallout, The Last of Us, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and so many more video games today imagine extinction scenarios as part of worldbuilding and gameplay. Yet, what is the place of video games in our Sixth Mass Extinction? The international symposium Imagining Extinction in Video Games aims to explore the intersections of game studies and extinction studies.
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Conference Theme: Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific
Deadline: 31 October 2024 (for both regular and MA panels).
Results: will be published around 15 March 2025.
Young Scholar Award: the deadline for submission is 31 October 2024.
Please note there will also be a poster presentation, the deadline being 31 October 2024.
Golda Akhiezer reviews Gomelauri's study of The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry.
https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/4/16/the-lailashi-codex-the-crown-of-georgian-jewry
The Medici Archive Project is offering nine short-term fellowships for graduate and pre-doctoral students working on a number of fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history).
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship (1)
Eva Schler Fellowship (4)
Beatrice Solomon (4)
Salaries vary from US $ 6,000 to $8,000.
Deadline: 15 June 2024
Ports have played an important role in history as spaces of transit and transitions, of encounters and exchanges, of comings and goings. As nodes in trading networks and hubs of economic activity, ports serve as dynamic meeting spaces for peoples and cultures throughout time. Ports were also zones of conflict, spaces where wars and battles were fought, and where interests and convictions clashed. For some, ports signified freedom and possibilities; for others – such as enslaved people – captivity and extraction.
Place-Based Histories: an interdisciplinary workshop for early career researchers
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU)
Thursday 5th September 2024, 10am – 3.45pm
https://www.history.ac.uk/events/place-based-histories
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Dear all,
we are currently assembling a Special Issue on what we have come to call environ|mental urbanities.
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1st International Conference on Contradiction Studies at the University of Bremen
The 3rd Annual Rethinking War Conference will be taking place via Zoom on April 19 - 20, 2024.
This year, we are honored to welcome keynote speaker Professor Susan Grayzel, who will deliver “Memory Keeping, Material Culture, and Modern War: Some Reflections on Writing New Narratives of Conflict" on Friday, April 19 from 12:00pm - 1:30pmEST.
All members of the public are welcome to take part in the conference and keynote, but registration is required. To register, please visit this link.
We are excited to announce the inaugural Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School, to be held from 8-12 July 2024 at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus.
We will be joined in Melbourne by Professor Oliver Feltham (American University of Paris) and Associate Professor Jessica Whyte (UNSW).